Humanitarian Intervention

On the last day of the Aegis Trust Peace Education colloquium at the Kigali Genocide Memorial yesterday, participants committed to working together to ensure their peace building policies and practices are informed by the latest research, measurable, and have a lasting impact on the communities they aim to benefit.

The Special Rapporteur is an independent expert appointed by the Human Rights Council (HRC) to examine and report back on freedom of expression globally and in specific countries. The Special Rapporteur can make recommendations and provide suggestions on ways and means to better promote and protect the right to freedom of expression and can exert both private diplomatic and public pressure in order to protect media from government control.
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The planned forced eviction of nine families of the Guarani Kaiowá Apika’y Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral lands in Mato Grosso do Sul state is another example of the authorities riding rough-shod over human rights to make way for landowners and profit, said Amnesty International today.
According to Amnesty International’s local partner Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), a judge has now notified the community that it will be forcibly evicted any day between June 13 and 15.
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